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How Covert Agents Infiltrate the Internet to Manipulate, Deceive, and Destroy Reputations
First Look.org ^ | Feb 24, 2014 | Glenn Greenwald

Posted on 03/01/2014 8:13:32 AM PST by KeyLargo

Dispatches

How Covert Agents Infiltrate the Internet to Manipulate, Deceive, and Destroy Reputations

A page from a GCHQ top secret document prepared by its secretive JTRIG unit

"One of the many pressing stories that remains to be told from the Snowden archive is how western intelligence agencies are attempting to manipulate and control online discourse with extreme tactics of deception and reputation-destruction. It’s time to tell a chunk of that story, complete with the relevant documents.

Over the last several weeks, I worked with NBC News to publish a series of articles about “dirty trick” tactics used by GCHQ’s previously secret unit, JTRIG (Joint Threat Research Intelligence Group). These were based on four classified GCHQ documents presented to the NSA and the other three partners in the English-speaking “Five Eyes” alliance. Today, we at the Intercept are publishing another new JTRIG document, in full, entitled “The Art of Deception: Training for Online Covert Operations.”

(Excerpt) Read more at firstlook.org ...


TOPICS: Books/Literature; Chit/Chat; Computers/Internet; Conspiracy
KEYWORDS: govtabuse; intelligence; internet; surveillance; whatsthefrnick; whatsthefrnicks
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To: bgill

I can think of one that was discovered to be a con artist with multiple AKA off FR. Very good at their chosen vocation


21 posted on 03/01/2014 12:24:54 PM PST by hoosiermama (Obama: "Born in Kenya" Lying now or then or now)
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To: Mamzelle

I first start with looking at posts by recent joins of FR.


22 posted on 03/01/2014 12:47:03 PM PST by KeyLargo
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To: Mamzelle

I can always tell them by the way they react or try to redirect the investigations to a “nothing is going on, it is business as usual”.


23 posted on 03/01/2014 12:50:50 PM PST by lavaroise (A well regulated gun being necessary to the state, the rights of the militia shall not be infringed)
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To: WildHighlander57

I am convinced that the trolls on the education threads are paid operatives. I refused to engage them.


24 posted on 03/01/2014 12:52:43 PM PST by wintertime
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To: wintertime

If the paid operatives are paid with tax money, isn’t that illegal Glimmers coming from the Nixon era ....


25 posted on 03/01/2014 1:20:38 PM PST by hoosiermama (Obama: "Born in Kenya" Lying now or then or now)
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To: hoosiermama

The discerning can see who the disruptors are.

Zullo and Arpaio’s upcoming press conference will be ... interesting.


26 posted on 03/01/2014 1:24:14 PM PST by little jeremiah (Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point. CSLewis)
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To: wintertime

You did the right thing from the git-go.

If u don’t feed em, they starve... trolls that is.


27 posted on 03/01/2014 7:38:18 PM PST by WildHighlander57 ((WildHighlander57, returning after lurking since 2000))
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To: Balding_Eagle

indeed, some are smarter and more subtle than others. But none of them are careful or hardworking enough to create an adequate history. But it is tedious to suspect a troll, and sit and read back through his previous posts.


28 posted on 03/01/2014 7:48:34 PM PST by Mamzelle
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To: wintertime
I am convinced that the trolls on the education threads are paid operatives.

Or they could just be folks who are fed up with your insulting their kids.

Nah... that would be too simple.

29 posted on 03/02/2014 7:56:26 AM PST by humblegunner
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To: KeyLargo

Mrs. JimRed frequently check online restaurant reviews when thinking about trying a new one. I, the skeptic, suspect that the glowing reviews are by the restaurant staff, management and their families, while the bad ones are by competitors’ management, staff and families. When a place is really superior and word gets out, you can’t get in when you want to, so why would I call in more diners?


30 posted on 03/02/2014 12:56:22 PM PST by JimRed (Excise the cancer before it kills us; feed & water the Tree of Liberty! TERM LIMITS NOW & FOREVER!)
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To: Mamzelle
The Progressive NGOs hire trolls to live on conservative blogs and forums.

How do they pay, and how do you get the job? We could mess with 'em from the inside!

31 posted on 03/02/2014 12:58:02 PM PST by JimRed (Excise the cancer before it kills us; feed & water the Tree of Liberty! TERM LIMITS NOW & FOREVER!)
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To: humblegunner

I will not be responding to your comments. Of course you can always stalk me, if you choose.


32 posted on 03/02/2014 3:07:09 PM PST by wintertime
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To: wintertime
I will not be responding to your comments.

So you have stated before, yet you continue to do so.

Of course you can always stalk me, if you choose.

Yes, thanks, I think I shall.

33 posted on 03/02/2014 3:10:43 PM PST by humblegunner
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